VoteVets has spent nearly $9 million supporting Turek, who is not a veteran (X/@turek4iowa) Iowa Democratic Senate candidate Josh Turek skipped a vote on legislation funding veteran services to attend a happy hour hosted by VoteVets, a left-wing super PAC that has spent millions on his campaign and is aligned with Senate minority leader Chuck
Throughout the 1920s and ’30s, many economists were preoccupied by a topic given poignancy by the dramatic economic ups and downs experienced by most Western countries following the carnage of the First World War. The origins of what came to be called business cycle theory can be traced back to the late 1810s as some
In the course of every hack writer’s life, with any luck, a great editor will appear. In my fortunate case that editor was Manuela Hoelterhoff, who died May 6 from cancer. She was 77. We were entirely different people. She was born in Hamburg just after World War II (or 11, as our better public
Alan Shipnuck has very good timing. His new book is a biography of Rory McIlroy, the golf champion. It was published last month, two days before the Masters tournament. McIlroy won the Masters last year. That was surely the “hook” of the book, its impetus. The Masters had long been missing from McIlroy’s “résumé.” He
This week’s Beijing summit had all the necessary ingredients for an epic geopolitical confrontation. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, the central figures in the rivalry reshaping global politics, squared off for the first time since their showdown in Busan. Instead, it resembled a garden party more than a UFC prize fight. The pair exchanged toasts,
Platner said he and his wife went to Norway for the treatments because ‘we don’t have that money’ to afford them in the US Graham Platner (Graeme Sloan/Getty Images) Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner’s father and in-laws paid for him and his wife to receive fertility treatments in Norway, according to a new report, which
Good news: The lab leak theory is no longer racist (or debunked). Bad news: If you don’t like China, you’re (still) a racist. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Days after Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, Calif., resigned from her post and pleaded guilty to acting as an illegal foreign agent of China, the mainstream media